is it this one
Yes it is
I speak Hungarian and could break down all the extras and whatnot
egészségére amigo, here is what I have put in, just let me know what to correct or to add to it:
https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Ragione_per_vivere_e_una_per_morire,_Una/DVD#Hungary
Köszönöm szépen, barátom, the dvd contains the following extras:
A German trailer, an Italian trailer (oddly enough using music from Day of Anger), an English trailer and an Enlish TV spot (basically another trailer), a chunk of trailers from other films, but to only list the westerns, Ace High and Lucky Luke in English and Preparadi La Bara in German. It has some interesting production stills like you mentioned, as well as scene selection, if you consider that a feature. Ultra film also put out Five man army, which I have. My verdict on these releases is that they are decent budget releases as they only cost a little more than 1000 ft (approx 3,5 dollars).
I should say HUF, not FT
so did anyone get the UK disc then?
Yeah, I did. Strictly vanilla release. No extras and only short version.
Haven’t actually watched it through yet.
Ok I would still be interested to learn your thoughts once you did. Yesterday I reached out to the German label who will be putting it out over here, driving home the message that there are high hopes for something better 
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Is there any subtitle options?
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No, Bill.
Absolute bare bones release.
English audio, no subs, picture gallery and trailer the only special features
@aldo Sorry about the horrendous delay on these mate. I inherited me grandad’s dog a few months back and I’ve been looking after her and have been working hard on musical projects outside of work the last few months. Fortunately the music’s mostly done now.
I’ll double-check but I think it came up less widescreen on pc for some reason. It looked a lot better on TV.
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No worries, BW … much appreciated. 
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No worries to you as well…It’s great to be back
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See I have confidence that the German label will put out the full length version more then any other territory label. Let’s hope 
Well I am in fact fairly certain that they might put out the longer version, but I wouldn’t be so sure about English friendliness of the release. However, at this point it have just about zero info about it
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I just watched finished watching A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die the whole way through for the first time. I had been reluctant to watch it due to it being a knock-off of The Dirty Dozen. I didn’t think I would like it, but I had a good time watching it! I read in the John LeMay book “Deadly Spaghetti” that James Coburn (Col. Pembroke) and director Tonino Valerii didn’t get along, and the former spent most of his time off between shoots doing yoga (p. 64). The soundtrack by Riz Ortolani was charged. Perfect for the movie in my book. Did anyone else notice the homoerotic undertones of the relationship between Major Ward (Savalas) and his young assistant? Just an observation, and not a judgment.
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It sounds like more of an explanation is in order. What I means is that the character of Major Ward came acrosss to me as having been created as being gay. It’s not too unusual to the genre. In The Grand Duel, Adam Saxon, the murderous brother of David Saxon (Horst Frank), appears to be out to win the Truman Capote look-alike contest. He also appears to have no interest in the character Elisabeth (his arranged soon-to-be-wife) or women in general for that matter. Elisabeth, in turn, is interested in Philipp Wermeer. I refuse to believe that I was the only one who saw The Grand Duel and thought the character Adam Saxon is gay. In ‘A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die,’ it comes across to me that Major Ward’s assistant (played by Fabrizio Moresco) appears to be way too emotionally invested in Major Ward (Savalas) to be considered anything other than romantic attraction. Savalas also seems to be more intimate towards the assistant than an officer and a lower-ranking soldier would act. Savalas puts a hand on the assistant’s face in a non-dude/bro sort of way. Ward’s office also has a Grecco-Roman statue of a naked man with junk in clear view. My observation comes as nothing other than a place of respect for LGBT people. I could just be reading into things. But, their dynamics just happened to stand out.
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Dammit! Now, I’ve got to watch it again just to see if I’ve been totally oblivious. 
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